Battlefield Earth (2000)
The Original: Enslaved humans rise up against their alien Psychlo overlords. Is it Scientology propaganda, or are they just sick of John Travolta's ridiculous drea🍒dlocks?
With Zombies: The humans renounce L. Ron Hubb♏ard, get zombiefied and start a new religion based around munching on thePsychlos for afternoon tea.
Key Scene: Travolta inadvertently re-enacts his Saturday Night Fever dance moves wﷺhile trying to fend off the zombie hordes.
Spice World: The Movie (1997)
The Original: Y'know. Posh. Ginger. Baby. Sporty. And, most p꧙ertinently here, Scary.
With Zombies: Killed in the first scene 24 hours away from their biggest ever gig,♎ can the band's management team stop the Girls trying to eat everybody long enough to get them on-stage?
Key Scene: David B꧑eckham's short-lived lunch date with Posh.
Gigli (2003)
The Original: Martin Brest's Bennifer rom-com about the misadventures of a rubbish mobster (Affleck) and a lesbian hitwoman (Lopez), hired to kidnap/kill a mentally challenged Baywatch fan.
With Zombies: The kidnappee turns out to be immune to a new zombie virus, which makes him valuable 💜as a guinea pig for experimentation.
Now Gigli must fight off zombie🌱s and shadowy scientists while trying to convince J. Lo that she'll need to have sex with ꦫhim to keep the human race going.
Key Scene: Lopez asks Affleck to go down on her, little realising he's now the flesh-eating undead. Gobble, g🌠obble.
Swept Away (2002)
The Original: Guy Ritchie's career gets stranded o🔯n an island with Madonna, where he is inexpl🦩icably asked to direct a rom-com
With Zombies: Madonna, cast adrift on the Island of the Zombies. Clearly, it's a m♋usical.
Key Scene: Madonna ki🐽🌌lls two zombies at the same time with her conical bra.
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
The Original: Ron Howard's two-hour long remake of Countdown , with a mulleted Tom Hanks piecing together the clues from Dict💯ionary Corner.
With Zombies: Look closer at Da Vinci's The Last Supper 𓆏 , and you'll see that he's painted the disciples as zombies. But modern-day zombie cultist Paul Bettany doesn't want the truth to get out.
Key Scene: Ian McKellen sets up a Powerpoint to explain the plot...but thankfully a zombie interrupts the e♉xposition by chewing through the power cable.
The Happening (2008)
The Original: Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel try to escape a mysteri♋ous neurotoxin that causes people to kill themselves. The culprit? The trees, who are trying to stop M. Night Shyamalan making new movies.
With Zombies: This one's a no-brainer. The neurotoxins causes people to kill the🧜mselves...so they can come back as zombies.
Key Scene: Wahlberg is too busy talking to a plant to spot the zombie lurking behind it.🍰 Chomp.
The Hours (2002)
The Original: Stephen Daldry's time-spanning epic 💙in which Nicole Kidman's Virginia Woolf manages to make life miserable not just for herself, but 60s housewife Julianne Moore and contemporary artsy-type Meryl Streep.
With Zombies: Virg𒆙inia Woolf accidentally writes a new version𝔍 of the Book of the Dead and is beset by marauding zombies.
Years later, Moo𒊎re and Streep reopen the book. Can Wꦬoolf leave clues to help her future-sisters reverse the tide?
Key Scene: You d♊on't expect Kidman to wear a fake nose in a zombie movie and not have it bitten off, do you?
The Postman (1997)
The Original: Kevin Costner wanders a post-apocalyptic landscape to deliver the post. Fo𝐆r three ho💫urs.
With Zombies: Post-apocalypse you say? But the twist here is that Costner's the zombie, and he's crossing the country to mop up 💝t♔he survivors.
Key Scene: Cost🉐ner ꦬfinds a mailbag full of letters, but dumps it by the roadside when he realises that envelopes aren't good eatin'.
The Love Guru (2008)
The Original: Mike My🐲ers' dubious comedy about a 'hilarious' Indian shaman hired to help a sportsman rediscover his mojo.
With Zombies: When 𓃲a basketball team is attacked by zombies, the survivors become the walking undead. But can the guru convince them to fulfil their hoop dreams?
Key Scene: Training goes horr💖ibly awry when a rogue ball decapitates the team's star player.
Indecent Proposal (1993)
The Original: R✱obert Redford makes Woody Harrelson an offer he can't refuse: $1 for a night with Demi Moore.
With Zombies: In this version, Moore's a zombie owned by sick millionaire Redford, who goes around luring hobos into a♒ fatal date with her for sadistic laughs.
Key Scene: Harrels𝐆on's drifter tames zombie-Moore and they join forces to stop Redford.
The Wicker Man (2006)
The Original: Neil LaBute's bizarre re🐬make of the 70s pagan classic, in 🐭which Nic Cage is lured to a remote island ruled by bee-worshipping, bearsuit-dressing crazy women.
With Zombies: Much t𝔉he same, except the isla𝐆nders worship brains and wear suits made of human flesh.
Key Scene: Nic Cage runs up an🗹d 💜tries to punch a zombie-woman...but she chomps his fist off.
PS I Love You (2007)
The Original: Dꦺead Gerard Butler leaves letters around forcing widow Hilary Swank to do what he tells her...from beyond the grave.
With Zombies: A little more literal𒀰. S♑wank wants to move on with her life, but undead hubby Butler refuses to take it lying down and keeps eating her prospective new boyfriends.
Key Scene: Swank 🐭discovers that Butler has been writing letters to her and thinks, maybe, he's trying to express his love for her.💝.. but it turns out to be illegible smearings of his victims' blood.
Crash (2005)
The Original: Deep down, everyone's a r🦹a💖cist. Especially Sandra Bullock.
With Zombies: L.A. is a divided city. The humans openly hate the "deadies." And♛ the zombies... well, they want to eat the humans.
Key Scene: Unable to break into the human's gated communities, the zombies learn to drive so they crash into the human's cars when they leave the compound.
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Original: George Lucas' attempt to convince us that Vader's back story was all trade federations an🎀d midchlorians...
With Zombies: ...whereas rea💝lly Vader endꦜed up looking like he did because he got half-eaten fighting off alien zombie invaders.
Key Scene: Jar Jar gets torn to shreds.
Glitter
The Original: Mariah Carey's misjudged star vehicle about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks becoming an R'n'B star 🐭with the help of that well-known musical guru, Max Beeওsley
With Zombies: From Dusk Till Dawn -style, Beesley kidnaps Carey but inadvertently takes her to a nightc🗹lub run by zombies.
Key Scene: Bees𝕴ley is eaten, but Carey kills th🔯e zombies with her caterwauling vocal range.
Batman and Robin (1997)
The Original: Batman and Robin camp it up in a neon-soaked, pun꧅-filled hell of Joel Sch♈umacher's devising.
With Zombies: Batman goes it alone when Gotham City is overrun by zombies and Robin gets devoured. When Arkham Asylum falls, he's really ౠgot his work cut out 🌜for him.
Key Scene: Ba💛tmobile vs street full of zombies. Goriest blockbuster scene eﷺver.
Catwoman (2004)
The Original: Halle Berry dons a leather catsuit after being killed and brought back to life by a ma📖gical cat.
With Zombies: Technically, she's already a zombie, but we're thinking more of a Romero vi꧋be. Bring on the zombie cat, in other words.
Key Scene: Berry shambles up to her victi💝ms, but when they point and laugh, those zombie cat reflexles kick in.
Chocolat (2000)
The Original: Lasse Hallstrom's sickly confection⛎ about a sexy cook (Juliette Binoche) who brings back a French village's va va voom with c💟hocolate.
With Zombies: Wh🍒en the dead start rising, it isn't long b𝓡efore they've killed all of the villagers. Can Binoche satisfy their hunger by sweetening the increasingly rotten flesh with chocolate?
Key Scene: Bin🉐oche makes a tiramisu out of blood and entrails.
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Original: Idiot Forrest (Tom Hanks) winds his way through the baby-boomer years and achieves inexplicable success by spouting folksky homilies and not bei𒅌ng one of those goddamn liberals
With Zombies: More or less the same, but here his stupidity renders him blithely oblivious t﷽oꦑ the fact that America is overrun by a swarm of the undead.
Key Scene: Forrest goes for a six-year-long run. The (fast) zombies race after him, but even♉tually they give up as their legs snap off from overuse.
The Hottie and The Nottie
The Original: Paris Hilton's Christabel wo༒uld be quite a catch, if it wasn't for the fact that she's best friends forever with a pugly. Yes, really, that's the premise.
With Zombies: Imagine the co꧅unter-cultural comedic potential should the 'Nottie' be a zombie. That's some gooseberry to contend with.
Key Scene: Dinnertime proves awkward when Christabel's latest boyf has to contend with her mate scoffing꧂ on a human heart.
